Seventy-two anti-abortion demonstrators...

SPREADING OUT.

April 10, 1990

PITTSBURGH — SPREADING OUT. Seventy-two anti-abortion demonstrators went on trial Monday in a makeshift courtroom in the city's convention center, where they held a prayer vigil and mingled with postal union leaders meeting nearby. Allegheny County prosecutors and defense attorneys began questioning 215 potential jurors. Common Pleas Judge Robert E. Dauer presided at a table on a small stage in a theater-size room because the rooms in the county courthouse were too small. Police arrested 86 people Oct. 28 after protesters charged police barricades outside the Allegheny Reproductive Health Center. Eleven pleaded guilty. Those on trial face a misdemeanor charge of failure to disperse.